January 2:
Record producer, music publisher and founder of FAME Studios
Rick Hall dies in Muscle Shoals, AL at the age of 85.
He was inducted into the Alabama Music Hall of Fame in 1985 and
also received the John Herbert Orr Pioneer Award.
In 2014, he won the Grammy Trustees Award in recognition of his
lengthy career.
Hall remained active in the music industry with FAME Studios,
FAME Records, and FAME Publishing.

January
15: The expanded edition of Delaney & Bonnie And Friends
1971 album 'Motel Shot' is released on LP by Run Out Groove. (DETAILS)

January 19: The book
'Stories And Works Of The Allman Brothers Band' is published by
Shinko Music Mook in Japan.

January 19: The CD 'Muscle
Shoals Has Got The Swampers' by the Muscle Shoals Rhythm
Section, also known as The Swampers, is released by Muscle
Shoals Sound Records / The Malaco Music Group. (DETAILS)

January 25: Singer, guitar player, drummer and percussionist Floyd Miles dies at
the Florida Hospital Memorial Medical Center in Daytona Beach,
FL at the age of
74.
In the 1960s, Gregg and Duane Allman used to go to clubs at the
base of the city pier in Daytona Beach, FL to see Miles’ vocal
group, The Untils. They were accompanied by The House Rockers.
Miles befriended the young Allman brothers, and Duane and Gregg
both joined The House Rockers as guitar players. But because
they only needed one guitar player, they switched off every
other night.
Floyd Miles was also singer and percussionist in Gregg Allman's
band from 1995 until 2013.

January 26: The Spencer
Wiggins compilation LP 'The Goldwax Years' is released in the UK. (DETAILS)

FEBRUARY
2018

February 13:
Singer, guitarist and songwriter Scott Boyer, a founding member
of the bands 'Cowboy' and the 'Decoys', dies at
the age of
70.
In the 1960s he played in 'The 31st Of February' with Butch Trucks (drums)
and David Brown (bass). In September 1968 they recorded demos at
the Tone Studios in Hialeah, FL with Duane and Gregg Allman.
These recordings were released in 1972 by Bold Records as "Duane
& Greg Allman". (DETAILS)
On the 1971 'Cowboy' album "5'll Getcha Ten" Duane Allman played
on 2 tracks. (DETAILS)

MARCH
2018

March 29:
Music photographer
Peter Tarnoff
dies in Osterville, MA at the age of 68.
One of the pictures he took on August 17, 1971 at the Allman
Brothers Band concert at the Boston Common in Boston, MA is
published in Gregg Allman's book 'My Cross To Bear'.

This article was originally published in
October 2006 in 'Uncut' magazine' (UK), issue no. 113.

APRIL
2018

April 21:
The Allman Brothers Band album 'Live At The Atlanta
International Pop Festival' is released as a limited edition 4LP
set on 'Record Store Day' by Epic / Legacy. (DETAILS)

JUNE
2018

June
8:
Eric Clapton's original soundtrack / compilation album 'Life In
12 Bars' is released by Universal. Duane Allman plays on 3
tracks. (DETAILS)

June
22:
The compilation album 'The Duane Allman Archives' is released by
The Broadcast Archive. (DETAILS)

JULY
2018

July
17:
Brenda Allman's photo-book 'Growing Up Allman' is published by
the CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.
This book contains many early pictures of Duane and Gregg
Allman.
Brenda Allman is a cousin of Duane and Gregg. Their father
Willis Allman and Brenda's father David Allman were brothers.

July
27:
All the recordings that
the The Grateful Dead's sound engineer Owsley 'Bear' Stanley
made during the Allman Brothers Band concerts at the Fillmore
East in New York on February 11, 13 & 14, 1970 are made
available as digital downloads by the Owsley Stanley Foundation. DETAILS

August 10: The Allman Brothers
Band CD 'Fillmore East February 1970' is re-released by The Owsley
Stanley Foundation & The Allman Brothers Band Recording Company. (DETAILS)

August 10:
The Allman Brothers Band 3CD set 'Transmission Impossible' is released by
Eat To The Beat. Duane Allman plays on CD1, recorded live at the
Warehouse in New Orleans, LA, on September 16, 1971. (DETAILS)

August 16:
Singer, songwriter and pianist Aretha Franklin dies in Detroit,
MI at the age of 76.

Duane Allman played on the Aretha Franklin tracks: The Weight,
It Ain't Fair, Takin' Another Man's Place, When The Battle Is
Over, Pullin' and You Keep Me Hangin' On. These tracks were all
recorded in 1969.

September
29: Blues guitarist and
singer Otis Rush dies at the age of 83.
Duane Allman plays on 6 tracks of Otis' 1969 album 'Mourning In The
Morning'. (DETAILS)

OCTOBER
2018

October 26:
The various artists
compilation album 'Cover Me - The Eddie Hinton Songbook' is released by
Ace Records Ltd. in the UK.
It contains The Hour Glass track 'Home For The Summer'. (DETAILS)

NOVEMBER
2018

November 16: Lulu's
5CD compilation box set 'Decade 1967 -
1976' is released by Edsel Records in the UK.
Duane Allman plays on 4 tracks. (DETAILS)

November 30: The
Allman Brothers Band 2LP compilation album 'Collected' is released by
Music On Vinyl in the Netherlands.
Duane Allman plays on 9 tracks. (DETAILS)

DECEMBER
2018

December 13:
All
the recordings that
the The Grateful Dead's sound engineer Owsley 'Bear' Stanley
made during the Allman Brothers Band concerts at the Fillmore
East in New York on February 11, 13 & 14, 1970 are released
on CD.
This 3CD set contains the digital downloads that were already
released on July 27, 2018 and the compilation CD that was
released on August 10, 2018. DETAILS

February 15:
The Allman Brothers Band LP
'Live In
Washington, DC, December 13th, 1970' is released by
DBQP. DETAILS
These recordings were previously released on CD in 2002 as
'American University 12/13/70.

MARCH
2019

March 23:
With the help of Derek Trucks, a historical marker is unveiled
at the 'Gray House', 2844 Riverside Avenue in Jacksonville, FL.
This is the house where most probably on March 23, 1969 the
'Jacksonville Jam' took place with Duane Allman, Dickey Betts,
Berry Oakley, Jaimoe, Butch Trucks and 'Second Coming' organist
Reese Wynans. (NOTE)